Tuesday
A selection of finalist works for the Itaú Visual Arts Award, 14th edition, from the cyclical perspective of the days of the week.
Cutting the Head Off (2022) by Francisco RattiFundación Itaú Argentina
They conceal the head of Holofernes, an Assyrian general about to destroy the city of Bethulia. An act as heinous as necessary.
From a primitive perspective, creation could only be ensured through sacrifice and war. Mars perpetuates and personifies this need for the brutal. Two women hide a freshly severed head. They are Judith and her servant.
Cutting the Head Off (2022) by Francisco RattiFundación Itaú Argentina
They conceal the head of Holofernes, an Assyrian general about to destroy the city of Bethulia. An act as heinous as necessary.
Francisco Ratti references this biblical scene, exploring the front and back of the painting as an inexhaustible language.
Vibratile 1 and Vibratile 2 Vibratile 1 and Vibratile 2 (2022) by Romina GarridoFundación Itaú Argentina
Romans considered Tuesday the right day for planning military campaigns.
Romina Garrido evokes a certain projective and methodical poetics. Starting from everyday materials, she weaves an optical effect dominated by fluorescent fields.
A carefully crafted plan where light and color unleash a latent energy.
5 hours. (2022) by Paula BenitesFundación Itaú Argentina
“5 horas” is the result of a continuous action carried out in a state of absolute consciousness.
A series of successive points that Paula Benites places in an extended field.
A time that persistently insists on becoming visible.
Working I (2022) by Abril CarissimoFundación Itaú Argentina
Abril Carissimo paints the introspective scene that the post-pandemic era ultimately solidified. A room where pleasure and work, public and private life, become entangled and blurred.
A triad of possibilities to represent an elusive identity.
In “3kg” by Camila Pozner, iron, chain, and rubble hinder movement. A sculpture that highlights certain alienating logics that reduce the human to a mere productive resource.
Johanna Borchardt's video performance proposes a looped choreography: mechanical and futile forces that rebel against confinement.
From confinement to the street. The city as a minefield of signs of disputes.
Mmm (2022) by Gaspar AceboFundación Itaú Argentina
Gaspar Acebo presents an accumulation of meanings around democracy, the cherished trophy of a long-lasting struggle.
To occupy, from the series “Seventy flowerpots and no mattress” (2022) by Fernando Luis Di FrancescoFundación Itaú Argentina
Fernando Luis di Francesco registers corners now occupied by large planters or bars. A dispute between private and public space, as impactful as silent.
Pain processing (2022) by Mercedes Invernizzi OviedoFundación Itaú Argentina
Mercedes Invernizzi Oviedo works with artificial intelligence fueled by records of repression. She processes pain through an operation that makes state violence visible.
Protest through a subtly altered imagination.
The violence that erupts and becomes uncontrollable.
Itaú Award 14th Edition on Google Arts & Culture:
Curators: María Menegazzo and Magdalena Mosquera
Coordination: Celina Marco
Translations: Valentina Bonelli
Fundación Itaú Argentina
José Pagés
Clarice Bentolila
Anabella Ciana
Alejandra Saldías
Nancy Chappe
Mariana Coluccio
Melina Cools
Mariano Pastore
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